Slain Syrian boy once wanted to be a cop -- before the crackdown - CNN.com

Slain Syrian boy once wanted to be a cop -- before the crackdown - CNN.com

Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, the Syrian boy whose killing has enraged, mobilized and emboldened the country's opposition movement, once harbored dreams of being a police officer.

But the 13-year-old changed his ambitions when the government crackdown went into full swing.

"When he saw police officers kill the people in the revolution, he would say, 'The police kill the people and I don't want to be like them. I do not know what I will be but the police kill people and torture them,'" according to one of his relatives, who escaped to Kuwait amid the regime's suppression of protesters.